Paul Theroux Quotes About Morning

Quotes about: Morning

• There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Simple, Journey

• Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

  Paul Theroux

  Mother, Morning, Home

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". The Atlantic Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

• The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Dark, Lakes

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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